Hymenoptera Orientalis. 131 



a sericeous pile, and the fore tibiae are spined on the 

 outer side. 



I. LiRIS H^MORRHOIDALIS. 



Pompilius Jiaimorrhoidalis, Fab., Syst. Piez. 198. 



Liris Savignyi, Spinola, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. VII., p. 476. 



Lyrops aiLreiventris, Guerin, Icon. regn. aniin. t. III., 440, 

 //. LXX. f. 9. $. 



Liris oricJialcea, Dahlbom, Hyin. Ent. I., 135. 



Tacky tes illudens, St. Fargeau, Nat. Hist. Ins. Hyin. III., 

 249, 12. 



Larrada JicemorrJioidalis, Smith, Cat. Hyni. Ins. IV., 280. 



Larrada Jicemorrhoidalis, Kohl, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 

 1884, 256. 



A widely distributed species, being found in the Mediter- 

 ranean region, Syria, Egypt, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone ; 

 Punjaub, Poona ( VVroiightoit). Smith (/. c.') records the species 

 from the Punjaub, but he omits it from his general Catalogue 

 of Indian species {Trans. Linn. Soc. 1869). 



2. Liris auratus. 

 Sphex aurata, Fab., Ent. Syst. II., 213, 64. 

 Liris ajirata, Fab., Syst. Pies., p. 228, 3. Kohl, Verh. 



z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1884, 241. 

 Larrada aiiridenta, Smith, Cat. Hyin. Ins. IV., 276, 6, 



pi. VII. fig. 5. 

 Tacky tes opnlenta, St. Fargeau, Nat. Hist. Ins. Hyin. 



III., 246, 7. 

 Widely distributed. India (common in Calcutta dis- 

 trict) ; Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bachian, Celebes, China, 

 Japan, Cape of Good Hope, and Gambia. 



3. Liris nigripennis, sp. nov. 

 Nigra, nitida, punctata ; facie clypeoque argenteo pilosis ; 

 area pygidialis aurea kirsuta ; alis fitsco-violaceis. Long. 

 ? 18; $ 15 mm. 



